Stunning Shots Take Top Prizes in the 2019 Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest — from thisiscolossal.com by Laura Staugaitis
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On 10/18/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
Shakespearean Wisdom Appears on a Building in Las Vegas in New Sunlight-Activated Installation by DAKU — from thisiscolossal.com by Laura Staugaitis
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On 10/17/2019,
in adjunct faculty, adult learning, animation, art, attention, blended learning, colleges, communities of practice, community colleges, content development, corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, design, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital video, education technology, engagement / engaging students, faculty, higher education, innovation, instructional design, K-12 related, Law Schools, learning ecosystem, lecture capture, multimedia, online learning, online media, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, story, storytelling, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, tools, training / L&D, universities, user experience (UX), vendors, visualizing information,
by Daniel Christian
5 good tools to create whiteboard animations — from educatorstechnology.com
Excerpt:
In short, whiteboard animation (also called video scribing or animated doodling) is a video clip in which the recorder records the process of drawing on a whiteboard while using audio comment. The final result is a beautiful synchronization of the drawings and the audio feedback. In education, whiteboard animation videos are used in language teaching/learning, in professional development sessions, to create educational tutorials and presentations and many more. In today’s post, we are sharing with you some good web tools you can use to create whiteboard animation videos.
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On 09/28/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
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On 09/25/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
The Geek in Review Ep. 53 – Makerspaces in Law Schools with Ashley Matthews and Sharon Bradley — from geeklawblog.com by Greg Lambert & Marlene Gebauer
NOTE: Sharon Bradley was a librarian at
WMU-Cooley before she moved to Georgia.
Excerpt:
Makerspaces are becoming very popular in libraries, and today we talk with two librarians who are ready to bring the collaborative thinking and working spaces into the law school library environment. Ashley Matthews is at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School, and Sharon Bradley is at the University of Georgia School of Law. Both believe there is a great benefit in carving out spaces within the law school library to allow students and faculty the ability to tinker and experiment with their creative sides, and potentially come up with the next big idea in the legal market.
Matthews and Bradley think that the law school library environment can be the perfect place to teach law students the analytical skills they’ll need in their practice to truly understand how a legal issue can benefit from technology, and how to issue spot, reason, analyze, and resolve legal issues more effectively with technology.
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Architect paints famous cities around the world in watercolor and the result is awesome — from themindcircle.com
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On 08/07/2019,
in 21st century, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, art, attention, augmented reality, communications, creativity, digital learning, digital storytelling, education, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, higher education, ideas, innovation, interaction design, interactivity, K-12 related, platforms, play, presentations, tools, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design, vendors, XR - extended reality, youth,
by Daniel Christian
Per Jacob Strom at HeraldPR.com:
KreatAR, a subsidiary of The Glimpse Group, is helping change the way students and teachers are using augmented reality technology with PostReality, to help make learning more interactive with poster boards.
See:
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Selection of Images from the 2019 Audubon Photography Awards — from thisiscolossal.com
Winners of the iPhone Photography Awards 2019 — from fubiz.net
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On 07/05/2019,
in attention, creativity, digital learning, digital textbooks, digital video, distance education, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), education, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, engagement / engaging students, ideas, innovation, K-12 related, real-world assignments, reinvent, web-based collaboration, youth,
by Daniel Christian
Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Dropout. — from edsurge.com by Kristin Leong
Excerpt:
Anthony’s classroom is as much an invitation to his students to take ownership of their learning as it is a rebellion against the education system that failed him when he was a student. In his book, “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year,” Anthony’s complicated relationship to education comes through as the fuel behind his work. In explaining his motivations behind reinventing classroom learning, he says that his focus as a teacher is to provide students with learning experiences that are “radically different” from the ones he remembers.
From the description of his book:
What makes Anthony Johnson a gem is not the fact that he is an African American male, but that he cultivates and fosters a learning environment unlike any other seen in this country.
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On 06/21/2019,
in biology, chemistry, colleges, communications, communities of practice, community colleges, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, design, education, education technology, engineering, faculty, Graphics, higher education, ideas, innovation, instructional design, journalism, mathematics, productivity / tips and tricks, research, science, society, universities, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design, vision,
by Daniel Christian
Research Posters Are a Staple of Academic Conferences. Could a New Design Speed Discovery? — from edsurge.com by Jeff Young
Excerpts:
Scholars around the world share their latest research findings with a decidedly low-tech ritual: printing a 48-inch by 36-inch poster densely packed with charts, graphs and blocks of text describing their research hypothesis, methods and findings. Then they stand with the poster in an exhibit hall for an hour, surrounded by rows of other researchers presenting similar posters, while hundreds of colleagues from around the world walk by trying to skim the displays.
…
Not only does the exercise deflate the morale of the scholars sharing posters, the ritual is incredibly inefficient at communicating science, Morrison argues.
…
Morrison says he has a solution: A better design for those posters, plus a dash of tech.
To make up for all the nuance and detail lost in this approach, the template includes a QR code that viewers can scan to get to the full research paper.
From DSC:
Wouldn’t this be great if more journal articles would do the same thing? That is, give us the key findings, conclusions (with some backbone to them), and recommendations right away! Abstracts don’t go far enough, and often scholars/specialists are talking amongst themselves…not to the world. They could have a far greater reach/impact with this kind of approach.
(The QR code doesn’t make as much sense if one is already reading the full journal article…but the other items make a great deal of sense!)
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On 06/17/2019,
in adjunct faculty, art, colleges, community colleges, creativity, faculty, higher education, ideas, K-12 related, pedagogy, teachers, teaching & learning, universities,
by Daniel Christian
7 ideas to pump up your drawing curriculum — from theartofeducation.edu by Debi West
Excerpt:
Here are 7 creative ideas that have come out of AOEU’s Studio: Drawing Course.
1. Play “Drawing Jeopardy.”
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On 06/15/2019,
in art, business, collaboration, communications, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, design, digital learning, education technology, Graphics, innovation, vendors, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Resources from Bluescape Brings Creatives Together to Ideate and Collaborate in New Ways at Cannes Lions 2019
- Design with Greater Ease Using Bluescape on Wacom video <– From DSC: Very sharp!
- Bluescape for Creatives – War Rooms video
- Bluescape for Creatives – Review and Approve video
- Bluescape for Creatives – Presentations and Storytelling video
- Bluescape for Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe XD page
- Bluescape Speeds up UX/UI Design Cycle with XD Plugin video
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On 05/15/2019,
in blended learning, colleges, communities of practice, community colleges, creativity, digital learning, education technology, face-to-face, flipping -- inverted learning, higher education, hybrid learning, K-12 related, Law Schools, pedagogy, teachers, teaching & learning, universities,
by Daniel Christian
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On 05/14/2019,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, art, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning, Blockchain, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital video, engineering, ethics, future, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, Law Schools, learning, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, legislatures / government / legal, morals/values, multimedia, personalized/customized learning, photography, platforms, simulations, society, technology (general), the downsides of technology, tools, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
Watch Salvador Dalí Return to Life Through AI — from interestingengineering.com by
The Dalí Museum has created a deepfake of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí that brings him back to life.
Excerpt:
The Dalí Museum has created a deepfake of surrealist artist Salvador Dalí that brings him back to life. This life-size deepfake is set up to have interactive discussions with visitors.
The deepfake can produce 45 minutes of content and 190,512 possible combinations of phrases and decisions taken by the fake but realistic Dalí. The exhibition was created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners using 6,000 frames of Dalí taken from historic footage and 1,000 hours of machine learning.
From DSC:
While on one hand, incredible work! Fantastic job! On the other hand, if this type of deepfake can be done, how can any video be trusted from here on out? What technology/app will be able to confirm that a video is actually that person, actually saying those words?
Will we get to a point that says, this is so and so, and I approved this video. Or will we have an electronic signature? Will a blockchain-based tech be used? I don’t know…there always seems to be pros and cons to any given technology. It’s how we use it. It can be a dream, or it can be a nightmare.
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On 05/11/2019,
in art, creativity, education, K-12 related, platforms, teachers, teaching & learning, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Artsonia recognizes 15 teachers around the nation with 2019 Art Education Leadership Award — from prnewswire.com with thanks to Bob Spoerl for these resources
Student art platform Artsonia recognizes art educators who are pioneers in their community
Also see this page on Artsonia with more details about each recognized teacher:
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